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The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as global-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 47,080 ratings — published 2015
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as global-history)
avg rating 4.04 — 449,433 ratings — published 1997
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as global-history)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,223,133 ratings — published 2011
Empire of Cotton: A Global History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as global-history)
avg rating 3.89 — 3,634 ratings — published 2014
After Tamerlane: The Global History of Empire Since 1405 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as global-history)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,459 ratings — published 2007
The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as global-history)
avg rating 3.68 — 968 ratings — published 2000
What Is Global History? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as global-history)
avg rating 3.72 — 299 ratings — published 2013
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as global-history)
avg rating 4.19 — 25,041 ratings — published 2021
Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as global-history)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,067 ratings — published 2000
The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century (America in the World)
by (shelved 10 times as global-history)
avg rating 4.25 — 610 ratings — published 2009
1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as global-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 20,745 ratings — published 2011
The Age of Capital, 1848–1875 (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as global-history)
avg rating 4.26 — 4,529 ratings — published 1975
The Age of Extremes, 1914-1991 (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as global-history)
avg rating 4.29 — 7,712 ratings — published 1994
Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350 (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as global-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 682 ratings — published 1989
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as global-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 93,879 ratings — published 2005
The Age of Empire, 1875–1914 (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as global-history)
avg rating 4.26 — 4,352 ratings — published 1987
The Birth of the Modern World, 1780-1914 (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as global-history)
avg rating 3.82 — 473 ratings — published 2003
Humankind: A Hopeful History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as global-history)
avg rating 4.32 — 77,067 ratings — published 2019
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (ebook)
by (shelved 6 times as global-history)
avg rating 4.19 — 67,273 ratings — published 1998
The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as global-history)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,055 ratings — published 2014
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as global-history)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,868 ratings — published 1998
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as global-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 82,095 ratings — published 2004
Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as global-history)
avg rating 3.99 — 413 ratings — published 2010
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as global-history)
avg rating 4.14 — 6,296 ratings — published 1987
The Age of Revolution, 1789–1848 (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as global-history)
avg rating 4.22 — 8,230 ratings — published 1962
Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as global-history)
avg rating 3.78 — 2,790 ratings — published 1985
A People's History of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as global-history)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,578 ratings — published 1999
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as global-history)
avg rating 4.19 — 112,788 ratings — published 2015
The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as global-history)
avg rating 4.30 — 613 ratings — published 2017
The Cold War: A World History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as global-history)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,335 ratings — published 2017
The Blood Never Dried: A People's History of the British Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as global-history)
avg rating 4.25 — 744 ratings — published 2006
The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as global-history)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,204 ratings — published 1944
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as global-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 60,542 ratings — published 2012
Civilization: The West and the Rest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as global-history)
avg rating 3.86 — 10,199 ratings — published 2011
Global Economic History: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as global-history)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,350 ratings — published 2011
China Transformed: Historical Change and the Limits of European Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as global-history)
avg rating 3.91 — 54 ratings — published
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as global-history)
avg rating 4.22 — 416,108 ratings — published 2003
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as global-history)
avg rating 3.90 — 30,359 ratings — published 2007
The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917–2017 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as global-history)
avg rating 4.49 — 32,116 ratings — published 2020
The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as global-history)
avg rating 3.57 — 7,888 ratings — published 2018
The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as global-history)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,149 ratings — published 2020
Salt: A World History (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as global-history)
avg rating 3.75 — 75,730 ratings — published 2002
The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as global-history)
avg rating 4.61 — 15,659 ratings — published 2020
Why the West Rules—for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as global-history)
avg rating 4.11 — 5,859 ratings — published 2010
Debt: The First 5,000 Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as global-history)
avg rating 4.21 — 26,116 ratings — published 2011
War and Peace and War: The Rise and Fall of Empires (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as global-history)
avg rating 4.18 — 885 ratings — published 2005
Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as global-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 896 ratings — published 2018
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as global-history)
avg rating 3.98 — 42,198 ratings — published 2004
Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as global-history)
avg rating 3.88 — 864 ratings — published 2000
The Lessons of History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as global-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 19,807 ratings — published
“An outstanding historical feature of the pie is that it is a self-contained meal which can be eaten in the hand, without the need of cutlery, crockery or napery.”
― Pie: A Global History
― Pie: A Global History
“Wheat is the only grain with a significant amount of gluten, so we have our first clue to the origins of pastry. Superb pastry could only have developed where wheat was grown: rye, barley and oats do not make good pastry, nor do rice or maize or potato starch.”
― Pie: A Global History
― Pie: A Global History
